Wedding Gowns and Formalwear Alterations   
Some Services I offer:

Alterations and Customizations
Placing bustles, both french and traditional.
Aisle-ready steaming for photos and wedding day
Iron crenolyns (the stiff tulle under your dress and
what your slip is made of)
Spot cleaning and repairs
French Bustles.
Each one is different and can vary in difficulty by
the height of the Bride and length and width of the
train.                                                                                               
               before:                         6 hooks later:
To Contact Sheila click   
or call 501-627-0907      
After the Bride being told it
couldn't be done, she found
me and I took the zipper out,
let out the sides of the dress,
put bust darts in and bustled it.
She was fabulous and glowing,
and she could breath because
it's lace up!                                    
                                    Sheila


Dress purchased from Nearly
New Consignment Store
This is Anna.  She saw a simple, sweetheart neckline
ballroom gown with a fabulous long sleeved jacket,
embellished with pearls and sequins. I found the gown to
buy and made the lace jacket from illusion, then appliqued
the whole thing.  It buttoned up the back and was so pretty!
  Thank you, Anna for trusting me with a picture and my
promise that it could be done!
This precious Homecoming Queen was
having a hard time
finding a dress worthy
of a Queen, so we
decided to  Make her
dress.  It was 2 piece
with an embroidered
and beaded  top, lettuce
leaf edged chiffon skirt
and she  was awesome!
This beaded drop-waist had to be
taken in from the waist down.  
Which meant take beads off, take it  
up,  take the skirt up, repleat,
rebead.  It turned  out very smooth,
as you can see.
Custom homecoming (red) or
flowergirl dresses (below). with
bustles or petals, or just lots of
tulle for the traditional princess
look.

Remember to order extra fabric
with your Maids dresses!
This dress we took the sleeves off, took it up
in the shoulders and took it up in the bodice
and waist by about 8 sizes! Taking off the
sleeves updated the dress, made a huge
difference and kept her from buying a new
dress. It had a huge train and just turned out
beautiful.   
I found this picture of Tessa and
baby Jovie, back in our store in
Boardwalk Village.  
After 3 hook bustle
Before Bustle
BEFORE, it was a total white dress.
 We cut the zipper out, made it lace
up, beaded some red on selected
appliques and she was
Homecoming Queen!!!               
Click on thumbnails
The satin cord on the edge of
Tulle is a hem I do a lot.
Custom Homecoming Dresses
for the Princesses. Both silver,
trimmed in Burgundy.  One
chose a circle cut ballroom
skirt with a jacket, the other
chose silver tulle with
burgundy satin trim to match
the sash was just beautiful.   
My Cousin, Corrie had a baby girl and this is what we came
up with for her room.  The end tables were attached to the
wall, so we made black satin runners to hang over the pink
tulle we suspended  from underneath.  I covered the pad in
the swing with pink satin and made it so it slips off,
everything is washable. The crib we just made satin sheets
and covered an inexpensive bumper pad with black and
white satin.  Little Mattea came home to a classy satin
nursery.
If you want your tea length dresses to
look like they are the same "tea
length", order them long and we'll
hem
them the same distance from the
floor
. This levels out the varied
heights of these girls.        
This is the only picture we could
find for this dress.  Anything not
determined by  the picture, we just
did the way  we wanted, like flare
of skirt, lowness of  halter back,
etc.
I altered this pageant dress for my
neighbor, all bustley and fabulous, you
can see she did well.
I make custom
veils, edged with
almost any trim  
ribbon.  I can
help design a
veil that you will
LOVE
for $25 a
layer up to
fingertip
length.
If the crenolyn under your dress looks
like this,
you need to call me.  This
needs to be smooth, not bumpy! You
won't know how poufy your dress should
look - and it can't be hemmed until this
is pressed!   
I make custom sashes for pageants,  
homecomings or any other occasion
you might need one for.  This 2 color
sash of satin is embroidered in silver
with the year and Title.  These are
labor intensive with color border and
angled at the top so it fits nicely on the
shoulder. Any color, any words.              
                          $60.00
Back is plain, single color.
This beaded/sequined dress wouldn't
zip and I couldn't get it under the
machine to sew loops on it - to make it
lace up.  So I hand sewed strips across
the back and sequined them to make
the pattern look continuous. I left the
zipper in, and it looked great!  
This awesome pink dress
was many sizes too big
and too long.  We made
it fit AND she climbed up
there and led the band!!
Your train doesn't have
to be big and/or floufy to
need a bustle.
The gold pin on your left
marks how too BIG this
dress was, so we cut the
zipper out to the waist and
made it lace up. TOTALLY
DIFFERENT DRESS!
 
This dress was way too
small, so we opened it up
with lace up. I still had to let
it out on the sides because  
It needs to be able to zip to
the waist!
This is my custom Prom dress for 2010. Camo,
billowy skirt, hunter orange sash, chocolate
brown halter top. This turned out SO CUTE!   
 Both of these dresses were
purchased at Nearly New
Consignment
      My sewing shop.
Amanda needed a
bustle, she would have
been miserable hassling
with this train! So I
added beadwork on the
back to hide the hook,
and she was good to go.  
 
Before
After
During